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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature
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1. A historical or literary reference to a person - place - thing - or event that the reader is expected to recognize.
Scenes
Literal Language
Blank Verse
Allusion
2. A pair of rhymed lines that may or may not constitute a seperate stanza in a poem.
Couplet
Literal Language
Motif
Characterization
3. A line of poetry or prose in unrhymed iambic pentameter.
Characterization
Synecdoche
Sestet
Blank Verse
4. A humorous moment in a serious drama that temporarily relieves the mounting tension.
Rising Action
Solioquy
Comic Relief
Pyrrhic
5. Refers to how a piece of literature is written rather than to what is actually said.
Solioquy
Motif
Theme
Style
6. A metrical foot represented by two stressed syllables.
Climax
Pyrrhic
Spondee
Situational Irony
7. Then narrator is a character in the story and tells the reader his/her story using the pronoun 'I'.
Dialect
Suspense
1st Person
3rd Person (Limited)
8. The voice an actor takes on to tell the story in a particular work.
Persona
Dramatic Irony
Fiction
Audience
9. The omission of an unstressed vowel or syllable to preserve the meter of a line of poetry.
Style
Motif
External Conflict
Elision
10. A three-line stanza.
Sestet
Tercet
Personification
Conflict
11. An interruption of a work's chronology to describe or present an incident that occurred prior to the main time frame of a work's action.
Blank Verse
Solioquy
Image
Flashback
12. A struggle or clash between opposing characters - forces - or emotions.
Dramatic Irony
Conflict
Subplot
Sestet
13. A technique designed to enact social change by using wit to rificule ideas - customs or institutions.
Hyperbole
Diction
Cliche
Satire
14. A metrical foot with two unstressed syllables.
Author's Purpose
Point of View
Denotation
Pyrrhic
15. A four line stanza in a poem.
Quatrain
Flashback
Literal Language
Aside
16. Refers to a writers use of language - including the use of literary techniques - word choice - and sentence structure - that sets one writer apart from another.
Sonnet
Dialogue
Voice
Rhyme
17. A character struggles against some outside force.
Reversal
External Conflict
Cliche
3rd Person (Omniscient)
18. As the conflict(s) develop and the characters attempt to revolve those conflicts - suspense builds.
Characterization
Rising Action
Caesura
Exposition
19. The resolution of the plot of a literarture work.
Dialogue
Denouement
Reversal
Metonymy
20. Spectific characteristics are applied to an entire group of people and are used to 'classify' those people as part of a 'group'.
Metonymy
Stereotype
Subject
External Conflict
21. A comparison between two things that share certain similarities.
Analogy
Syntax
3rd Person (Limited)
Parallelism
22. A subsidiary or subordinate or parallel plot in a play or story that coexists with the main plot.
Subplot
Stereotype
Internal Conflict
Couplet
23. Smaller units of plays that are broken down.
Spondee
Sestina
Enjambment
Act
24. The main character of a literary work.
Protagonist
Mood
1st Person
Conflict
25. A tension created as the reader becomes involved in a story and when the author leaves the reader in doubt about what is coming next.
Ode
Figurative Language
Suspense
Internal Conflict
26. Prose writing about real people - places - and events.
Nonfiction
Understatement
Assonance
Recognition
27. A long - statle poem in stanzas of varied length - meter - and form.
Character
Rising Action
Ode
Narrative Poem
28. A nineteen-line lyric poem that relies heavily on repetition.
Epigram
Villanelle
Characterization
Anapest
29. A phrase or expression that has been repeated so often it has lost its significance.
Allusion
Cliche
Voice
Internal Conflict
30. What a story or play is about.
Blank Verse
Subject
Denouement
Rising Action
31. A technique in which words - phrases - or sounds are repeated for emphasis.
Structure
Conceit
Personification
Repetition
32. Broken down acts.
Verbal Irony
Protagonist
Point of View
Scenes
33. The implied attitude of a writer toward the subject and acharacters of a work.
Motif
Tone
Epigram
Metonymy
34. A short story that teaches a moral or a religious lesson.
Lyric Poem
Character
Parable
External Conflict
35. The feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader.
Mood
Foil
Author's Purpose
Internal Conflict
36. A comparison between essentially unlike things without an explicitly comparative word such as 'like' or 'as'.
Metaphor
Lyric Poem
Simile
Conceit
37. An intensification of the conflict in a story or play.
Complication
Climax
Structure
Falling Action
38. A moment of insightfulness when a character realizes some truth.
Aubade
Epiphany
Enjambment
Connotation
39. A figure of speech in which an abstract concept or an absent or imaginary person is directly addressed.
Literal Language
Mood
Apostrophe
Tone
40. The point at which the action of the plot turns in an unexpected direction for the protagonist.
Act
Diction
Reversal
Foil
41. The series of events that make up a story or drama.
Act
Assonance
Plot
Aphorism
42. A figure of speech in which an inanimate object animal - or idea is given human qualities or characteristics.
Anapest
Folklore
Plot
Personification
43. A story passed down over generations that is believed to be based on real events and real people.
Character
Exposition
Personification
Legend
44. The organizational form of a literary work.
Aphorism
Dialect
Structure
Suspense
45. The idea of a literary work abstracted from its details of language - character - and action - and cast in the form of a generalization.
Convention
Theme
Situational Irony
Analogy
46. A figure of speech in which a closely related term is substituted for an object or idea.
Rhyme
Convention
Point of View
Metonymy
47. The repetition of consonant sounds - especially at the beginning of words.
Aubade
Alliteration
Lyric Poem
Pyrrhic
48. The narrator is outside of the story and is all-knowing or 'God-like' because he/she knows everything that occurs and everything that each character thinks and feels.
Internal Conflict
3rd Person (Omniscient)
Recognition
Synecdoche
49. A figure of speech in which a part of something represents its whole.
Tone
Comic Relief
Sestina
Synecdoche
50. Poetic meters such as trochaic and oactylic that move or fall from a stressed to an unstressed syllable.
Diction
Falling Meter
External Conflict
Anapest
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